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Country United Kingdom Publication date 2012 Originally published 2012 Publisher Markosia | 3/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 128 Page count 128 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Author Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Genres Horror fiction, Southern Gothic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bayou Arcana: Songs of Loss and Redemption is a graphic novel anthology of 11 stories created by a team of male writers and female artists, first published in 2012. It draws heavily on the United States' 'Southern Gothic' tradition of mysticism in both the storytelling themes and visual art. Much of the stories' content is also related to cultural issues of oppression and retribution in the context of the history of the Southern United States
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Bayou Arcana is an attempt to increase gender equality in the comic industry. According to The Guardian, "The anthology is the product an experiment that brings together an all-female team of artists with an all-male team of writers and it is an illustration of how a new generation of female artists and readers is radically changing the face of comics."
5 of the artists, and 3 of the writers will be attending the Kapow 2012 comic convention as members of an interview panel which has been commented on by the press as another positive step for women in the comic industry.